Septic Christmas

Today we literally flushed our Christmas present money down the toilet! Had to have the septic tank pumped to the tune of over $400.00. Yikes! That's some expensive shit! And we had a blockage in the main pipe that runs under the driveway to the tank. We think this is due to the fact that we had been using 'Charmin' which is soft but horribly pluggy to pipes. Ed cleaned it all out (we hope) with a large, black, rubber thing that expanded in there with hose water. We're still in the process of testing this - I'm doing a load of wash to see what happens. Fun, huh? If it doesn't work, all the stuff will spew out into Sam and Aaron's bathroom through their toilet and into the tub. I guess they had noticed that their bathroom floor was wet all week but they didn't say anything until yesterday when it ran out their bathroom door. Eeeeeuuuuwww talk about unsanitary. So that's our pre-holiday fun!